How Often Do You Clean It was featured!

A huge THANK YOU to Holly at 504 for spotlighting my

How Often Do You Clean It Series!

You have got to go check out her blog, she is funny and witty and has GREAT ideas, and not to mention her Tickled Pink Friday Party is rockin!

Jen

Featured on Facebook

I opened up my email this afternoon and to my surprise had an email from Bella at

saying how much she loved  my birdhouse reno, in fact she loved it so much she was featuring it on her Facebook!!  How cool! Thanks so much Bella, what an honor that is!! Ya'll pop on over to her blog or her facebook and check her out. She has an amazing blog full of all sorts of stuff, jewelry, crafts, link parties, family stuff, its great!

Jen

Over 50 Followers!

I got on my blog to do my daily checking and what do you know....I have over 50 followers! A hugh thank you to each and every one of you blogger friends for being so loyal and interested in what I have to say!

Jen

Guest Posting at Not JUST a Housewife

Hey friends! Today Stacy over at Not JUST a Housewife is featuring some of my projects and ideas! Thanks so much to Stacy for my very first guest post and letting me strut my stuff at your place! So ya'll be sure to pop in over there and check it out! She has a great blog with all sorts of fun goodies to get into.

So come on...you know you want to...just click and enjoy!

See ya'll over there!!

Jen

I finally have a button!

Thanks to the super smart and very sweet Amy over at menmythriftyideas I have a button!!!

 She saw that my blog was so sad without a button and made my blog super chic and very happy by designing me one! So... if you so desire a OCD button feel free to grab it from the left sidebar and slap that puppy right on your blog!

THANKS so much AMY!

Jen

Featured!

I have been been featured over at Under the Table and Dreaming for the Sunday Showcase!!! So excited when that happens!! Thanks all who voted my labels!!! Stephanie's blog is so fun to look around, I am always getting fab ideas from her and the ladies she features. Thanks so much Stephanie!

Jen

I got not just 1, but 2 awards!!!

A hugh thanks to

Amy at Me N My Thrifty Ideas 

and

Allison over at The Best Things in Life are Not Things 

for the Versatile Blogger Award!!!

What a normal, blah kinda day I was having until I open up my email this evening and BAM!

Not just one but two awards!!

The feeling is overwhelming and humbling and everything in between. I started this blog last month on an idea that my friend and I brainstormed and now WOW is all I can say. I love to craft and decorate and organize and my hope for this blog is that it will inspire people to be

1st: happy with what they have

and

 2nd: strive to be the best you that you can be by maintaining a home that is pleasing to you and your family.

I do that with my crafting and obsessive organizing, it's different for us all, some bake and others iron. Eitherway I am so overjoyed that so many are taking a notice! Thank you so much ladies!!!

Here's how the awards works:

Thank and link back to the person(s) who bestowed the awards

Share 7 random things about yourself

Nominate 15 other awesome bloggers

Contact those bloggers and inform them about the award

So now on to the real fun! 7 totally random things about me...hum...

1. I hate roaches with a passion, one tried to attack me 10 years ago and that started my insane phobia of those little nasty things.

2. My mom died of breast cancer at 43 and my dad died of pancreatic cancer at 56 and I have a fear that I will not live past 44.

3. I was 19 when I got married and had my first son. I thought I was the smartest 19 year old alive, but now looking back, I see I was just as dumb as all the rest.

4. I have been married to the most amazing man for 10 years and have 2 of the most amazing boys with him.

5. I love to go to the deer lease with my husband and boys and wear my camo coveralls and baseball hats, however I do not like to kill anything.

6. I have a chiuahuah named Sadie who sleeps on my pillow with me everynight, and if she is not there I can't sleep.

7. I use cheap shampoo and conditioner even though I know better and I hate it.

I am passing this award on to the following amazing ladies, go check out their blogs! They all have great stuff going on!

Sand and Sisal 

H Family Happenings 

Girl Boy Girl Inspired

Young and Crafty

The Yellow Cape Cod

Honey and Maple Syrup

iheartorganizing

flipflops and pearls design

Smashed Peas and Carrots

Show and Tell

House of Smiths

Thrifty Decor Chick

Emily A Clark

A Little Knick Knack

And this last one is a biggie on my list, this is the FIRST blog I ever found, it was through Layla that I discoverd this whole crazy world of blogging and all that greatness that comes with it!

The Lettered Cottage

Jen



My 1st Feature, My 1st Follower

I am so tickled! I have been featured and followed!!! A huge

THANKS YOUR THE BEST to Amy over at Me and My Thrifty Ideas

for my first feature and follower! She has some really great ideas too for craft ideas on a budget!! For all the bloggers out there I hope you remember the feeling you get when someone notices your ideas and loves them too and then passes them on, and I hope that the feeling doesn't go away the more it happens! I started this blog as a way to get my tips and constant ideas out there, so many friends of mine say "share what you have" and I am just so thrilled that I can and that people are listening! What a joyful day!

Happy Crafting

-Jen